Thursday, April 5, 2012

A Rune, Interminable by Marie Ponsot

A Rune, Interminable

Low above the moss
a sprig of scarlet berries
soon eaten or blackened
tells time.

          Go to a wedding
          as to a funeral:
          bury the loss.

         Go to a funeral
         as to a wedding:
         marry the loss.

         Go to a coming
         as to a going:
         unhurrying.

         Time is winter-green.
         Seeds keep time.
         Time, so kept, carries us
         across to no-time where

         no time is lost.

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